Man and Civilization: An Inquiry Into the Bases of Contemporary LifeHarcourt, Brace, 1927 - 449 páginas |
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Man and Civilization: An Inquiry Into the Bases of Contemporary Life John Storck Vista completa - 1927 |
Man and Civilization: An Inquiry Into the Bases of Contemporary Life John Storck Vista completa - 1927 |
Man and Civilization: An Inquiry Into the Bases of Contemporary Life John Storck Vista completa - 1927 |
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A. N. Whitehead action activities Aristotle artist attitudes become behavior biological body C. K. Ogden cell changes child complex connection consciousness contemporary coöperative course culture pattern depend desire determining discoveries economic Edward Carpenter effects emotional environment esthetic existing experience F. M. Cornford fact feeling functions germ germ cells germ plasm glands Graham Wallas habits Havelock Ellis human ideal ideas imagination important individual industrial instances interests invention knowledge labor language living machine Macmillan manner marriage materials matter means ment mental mind modern nature necessary nervous nomic notions objects organism persons possible present problem processes Psychology reflex arcs regarded relations religion religious respect responses result scientific scientist seldom sexual situation society things thinking thought tion traits usually W. H. R. Rivers words
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Página 58 - It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are 135 living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Página 303 - For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
Página 338 - I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour! That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love; — then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.
Página 303 - Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
Página 405 - Render therefore to all their dues : tribute to whom tribute is due ; custom to whom custom ; fear to whom fear ; honour to whom honour.
Página 375 - The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination ; that in the most successful instances not a tenth of the suggestions, the hopes, the wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realized.
Página 45 - Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one...
Página 359 - My illustrious Friend, and Joy of my Liver! "The thing you ask of me is both difficult and useless. Although I have passed all my days in this place, I have neither counted the houses nor have I inquired into the number of the inhabitants; and as to what one person loads on his mules and the other stows away in the bottom of his ship, that is no business of mine.
Página 188 - I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon. I had entered the Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street, and had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far as the herd's house, when the idea came into my mind that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel, it would rush into it, and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder.
Página 51 - I teach you the Superman. Man is something that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man? All beings hitherto have created something beyond themselves: and ye want to be the ebb of that great tide, and would rather go back to the beast than surpass man? £•- s» What is the ape to man? A laughingstock, a thing of shame «» And just the same shall man be to the Superman: a laughing-stock, a thing of shame.